Vincent Weisser

According to The Block, he previously served as Chief of Ecosystem and AI at Molecule, a platform for tokenizing and funding biopharma intellectual property.⁠[1]

In 2024, he co-founded Prime Intellect and became its CEO; the company’s team is based in San Francisco and also hires remotely.⁠[2][3]

On April 23, 2024, The Block reported that Prime Intellect had closed a $5.5 million seed round led by CoinFund and Distributed Global, naming him as a co-founder of the company.⁠[1]

On February 28, 2025, he and Johannes HagemannJohannes HagemannJohannes Hagemann is an artificial intelligence research engineer and a co-founder of Prime Intellect, a company focused on decentralized AI training, who previously helped develop a distributed training framework at the German AI company Aleph Alpha.Open the full entry announced in a bylined company blog post that Prime Intellect had raised $15 million led by Founders FundFounders FundFounders Fund is a venture capital firm founded in San Francisco in 2005 by Peter Thiel and his former PayPal colleagues Ken Howery and Luke Nosek. Run by partners who were entrepreneurs themselves, it argues that founders should keep more control and is known for betting on difficult technology projects in areas such as space, defense, and artificial intelligence. It was Palantir’s first institutional investor, has invested in SpaceX many times since 2008, and its other notable investments include Facebook, Airbnb, Stripe, and Anduril; as of March 2026 it had raised nine early-stage funds and four growth funds.Open the full entry, with participation from Menlo Ventures and individual investors including Andrej KarpathyAndrej KarpathyAndrej Karpathy is an AI researcher and educator, one of the founding members of OpenAI, who served as Tesla’s Director of AI and led the Autopilot computer vision team from 2017 to 2022, founded the AI education company Eureka Labs in 2024, and joined Anthropic in 2026 to work on pre-training research; at Stanford he designed and taught the university’s first deep learning course, CS231n, and he coined the term “vibe coding.”Open the full entry and Clem Delangue, bringing total funding to more than $20 million.⁠[4]

On November 26, 2025, Prime Intellect released INTELLECT-3, a 106B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model trained with SFT and RL on top of the GLM 4.5 Air base model.⁠[5]

On July 8, 2026, Prime Intellect announced a $130 million Series A led by Radical VenturesRadical VenturesRadical Ventures is an artificial intelligence-focused venture capital firm founded by Jordan Jacobs and Tomi Poutanen shortly after the 2017 launch of the Vector Institute in Toronto. It invests from incubation and seed through growth and pre-IPO stages, and its portfolio includes companies such as Cohere, Waabi, and World Labs. In 2026, it co-led the investment in Discovery Loop, founded by Jeff Dean and others, and completed the first close of its late-stage Radical Breakouts Fund.Open the full entry, with participation from NVIDIA Ventures, Intel Capital and Dell Technologies Capital; TechCrunch reported a valuation of $1 billion.⁠[6][2]

Speaking to TechCrunch, he said enterprises are shifting away from closed frontier models toward training their own, and that the capability to train AI models should belong not only to a few organizations but to every enterprise and nation state.⁠[2]

His personal website describes him as a product leader with a background in design and development who is focused on decentralized science, and says he is interested in automating AI and science.⁠[7]

Prime Intellect: Official website: https://www.primeintellect.ai/ (opens in a new window)⁠[3]

Prime Intellect: Official account: https://x.com/PrimeIntellect (opens in a new window)⁠[3]

Personal website: Public link: https://vincentweisser.com/ (opens in a new window)⁠[7]

X: Public account: https://x.com/vincentweisser (opens in a new window)⁠[4][7]